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Pope Francis canonized 35 new Roman Catholic saints on Sunday, including three indigenous children martyred in 16th century Mexico and considered the first Christians killed for their faith in the New World.

An unidentified American man traveling from Philadelphia, US to the Dominican Republic caused a major scare among passengers and the airplane crew in an airborne US Airways Flight 845 when he yelled, “I have Ebola… I’ve been to Africa!” But it turned out it was an innocent joke.

The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska institute says that “this year’s Nobel Laureates have discovered a positioning system, an “inner GPS” in the brain that makes it possible to orient ourselves in space, demonstrating a cellular basis for higher cognitive function.”

The unnamed man, 24, was urinating in a nearby bush when he was approached by one of the men who “made it clear that he wanted to have sex with him.” The 24-year-old refused, and he was then brought to the ground and raped. The two rapists then fled the scene, and police are still searching for clues as to their identity.